Dr. rer nat. habil. Alfons H.J. Renz, Privatdozent / Assistant Professor May 2018 Inst. Evolution & Ecology, Dept. Comp. Zoology, AG Parasitology Tel.: +49 7071-29-70100 Auf der Morgenstelle 28 Fax.: +49 7071-83801 72076 TÜBINGEN Alfons.Renz@uni-tuebingen.de Curriculum vitae 16.06.1949 Born in Schwäbisch Hall (Southern Germany). 1969-1975 Studies of biology in Tübingen (zoology/parasitology, plant physiology, hygiene, electronics). 1976 Thesis of diploma "Studies on the development of Litomosoides carinii (Nematoda, Filarioidea) in the tropical rat mite Ornithonyssus bacoti" Inst. of Trop. Med., Tübingen (Prof. Wenk) 1976-1979 Studies on transmission dynamics of human onchocerciasis in Cameroon (WHO/OCP/TDR) Set-up of a field-station in North Cameroon (Dr. Anderson & Fuglsang, London). 1982, 1983 Consultant of the Onchocerciasis Control Programme (OCP, WHO). Studies on the reinvasion of Simulium damnosum s.l. and vectorial capacity of members of the S. damnosum complex in Togo and Benin. 1984-1989 Coordinator of CEC-funded project on the epidemiology of human onchocerciasis in various bioclimatic zones of Cameroon (Nat. Inst. Med. Research, London, Med. Res. Station, Kumba, Cameroon, Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, Amsterdam) (WHO/TDR und CEC). 1987-1989 Principal Investigator of WHO/TDR-funded project on the identification of Onchocerca-larvae in anthropophilic Simulium damnosum s.l. flies in Cameroon. 1987-1988 Field studies on ivermectin mass-treatments in the Vina valley in Cameroon. Entomological studies (WHO/TDR). In collaboration with ORSTOM and Min.Public Health in Yaoundé. 1990 Organization of the first meeting of CEC-funded filarial research groups in Tübingen. 1989-1992 Coordinator of CEC-funded study on animal filariae in North-Cameroon: Epidemiological and molecular biological investigations (Nat. Inst. Medical Research, London, IRAD, Cameroon, Medical Research Station, Cameroon, Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, Amsterdam). 1990-1992 Development of DNA-probes for the identification of Onchocerca-larvae in Simulium vector flies. Funded by DFG (Germany). 1992-98 Coordinator of CEC-funded project: Can cattle protect from onchocerciasis ? – Reduction of Simulium vectorial capacity and cross-protective concomitant immunity by cross-transmission of animal filariae (Onchocerca ochengi). (Strathclyde Univ. Glasgow, IRAD, Cameroon, Medical Research Station, Kumba, Cameroon, Federal Univ. of Technology in Yola, Nigeria). 1992-00 Co-investigator of WHO/TDR/OCP-funded research on Onchocerca ochengi in African cattle as a novel drug-screening model for the search of new macrofilaricidal drugs (Liv. School of Trop. Med.; IRAD, Wakwa, Cameroon). 1996 Discovery of the macrofilaricidal activity of high doses of tetracycline in the bovine O. ochengi model. Since 1996 Studies on Wolbachia endosysmbionts of filarial parasites: biology and potential targets for antifilarial chemotherapy (Cameroon, Tübingen and Hohenheim) 2002 Immunology and epizootiology of Dermatophilus congolensis in Cameroonian cattle (Prof. Pfister, Vet. Parasitol. München) 2002 Development of a stochastic mathematical model of human onchocerciasis, significance of human behaviour and vector host-choice (Drs. Little and Bazanes, Imp. Coll. London) since 2000 Fundus Tübinger Wissenschaftsgeschichte, History of Natural Sciences at Tübingen 2008 Molecular approaches to the population biology of Onchocerca ochengi in cattle (Prof. R. Post, British Mus. Nat. Hist., and LSHTM) 2008 Co-investigator DFG-project: Studies on the secretom and proteom of filarial worms. since 2013 Co-ordinator: DFG-Project: “Is eradication of human onchocerciasis possible? Entomological, biological and epidemiological studies on filarial parasites in North-Cameroon” Since 2014 Member of the Ethiopian Onchocerciasis Elimination Expert Advisory Committee since 2015 Baden-Württenberg-Stipendium Plus grant for training and exchange of Cameroonian and German students